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^ J PREFACE 

One of the, main reasons for the recent at- 
tempts to legislate against the fraternity 
system is that it is repugnant to democratic 
ideals; and unfortunately, there are practices 
occurring daily in a few of our American col- 
leges and universities which sustain this 
charge. Totally incredible as it must sound, 
we have nevertheless a number of fraternity 
men whom some abortive delusion of superior- 
ity has rendered so perverse that they would 
not think of associating with men holding 
dissimilar fraternal connections; and not a 
few instances are known of men who refuse 
even to speak to or in any way recognize 
members of another fraternity. 

Distinctly the crowning absurdity of our 
generation ! 

[ You will readily agree, I think, that among 
nW supposed to be representative of the 
highest type of American civilization such a 
flaunt of petty conceit, of ludicrous or pitiful 
illiberality is unbelievably infantile and 
asinine. I bear a firm conviction that men 
who have arrived at this period in life not 
cognizant of one of Nature's greatest and 
most fundamental truths deserve not only 
legislation but something perilously similar 
to incarceration. J 

Freshman, yon have a mission to perform, 
a duty to humanity, your college, your fra- 
ternity, yourself. Whether this legislation 
grows or subsides will depend very largely on 
you. It is your mission to bring about full 
equality among fraternities. It can be ac- 
complished by observing, and demanding 
observation of, the following precepts: 

I. Speedy and relentless destruction of all 
symptoms of the superiority bugaboo. 

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II. Strict insistence upon the principle of 
" College First," constantly making fraternity- 
interests subordinate to those of the college. 

III. Planning now to do everything possible 
to encourage harmonious tnferfraternity rela- 
tions, and, of equal importance, harmonious 
confraternity relations. This latter thing, 
not from clever or diplomatic motives, but 
because it is the only broad and sane course of 
action. 

The first and most important step is to rid 
your mind once for all of this age-old bugaboo 
called superiority. Real men know but one 
doctrine — equality. Superiority exists only 
among those unfortunates who think it exists, 
and it will continue haunting them until they 
decide to throw off the yoke of superstition 
and ignorance. 

There is one fact you should drive home to 
yourself at the very beginning, it is absolutely 
indispensable that you know and believe it 
wholeheartedly. Get it so firmly and thor- 
oughly fixed in your mind there'll never be 
room left for any doubt about it. 

\The fraternity you elect to join is the equal 
in every respect of every other fraternity that 
exists. 

This is so, it's got to be so or the whole 
universe is wrong// 

And remembef; it cannot and will not 
cease being so even though your belief in it, as 
such, should falter. Then and there it is you 
becoming inferior. 

There are two equally effective, infallible 
cures for all symptoms of superiority or con- 
ceit — either laughing at them as being humor- 
ous (which they are), or displaying grief at 
them as being worthy objects of anyone's 
commiseration (which they are). 

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It is important, too, that you have the 
correct attitude in regard to differences, 
not of fraternal affiliation alone but respecting 
conditions infinitely more important, infinite- 
ly more permanent than the comparatively 
transient variations and differences in men 
and manners, marked out during your time 
at college. 

Differences in men are one of Nature's 
greatest blessings and without them life would 
indeed be unbearable; the manner in which 
you regard them is in almost every case an 
accurate indication of your intellectuality 
and character. Always accord them the 
fullest measure of equality and the respect of 
keeping your mind clear of the popular delu- 
sion that would make this one a token of 
superiority; that one, of inferiority. 

The value of the American fraternity 
system has provided subject matter for end- 
less argument and debate in the past, and 
doubtless will in the future as well. I will 
disregard for the most part the evils, whether 
real or imaginary, which in the past have 
been ascribed to fraternities, believing, in the 
light of the number of very significant changes 
that have taken place in the past four or five 
years, that we are soon to witness a period of 
prosperity and real accomplishment unpre- 
cedented in fraternity existence. 

Neither will it be my intention to attempt 
to vindicate the system of charges often made, 
but, in view of at least one outstanding bless- 
ing it has wrought, I will prove it a boon 
of almost priceless value to our colleges as 
well as the men themselves. I feel I would 
have done a gross injustice not to have in- 
corporated this blessing in these pages. 



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VTOU, as a freshman entering college, like 
* practically every other freshman who ever 
entered college, undoubtedly have only one 
really concrete idea about fraternities and 
that a powerfully false one, simply because 
you misunderstand one of the commonest 
words of our language. 

You want to join one of the best fraterni- 
ties. 

Precisely the right thing to do by all means 
— quite the only thing to do, in fact, if you 
are to find any real happiness in fraternity 
life. 

But unless you are extraordinary, one of 
the one-in-a-thousand freshmen, you prob- 
ably don't know what the word "best" means 
in its application to fraternities and fraternity 
selection. And it is tremendously necessary 
to very correctly and very thoroughly under- 
stand the meaning and proper interpretation 
of this word in its fraternity sense. 

DON'T call fraternities "frats"— use 
the full name. 

I shall try to help you do this. What I am 
to say may sound confusing and seem am- 
biguous and self-contradictory, but it will 
pay you well to expend any extra effort that 
may be found necessary for its fullest under- 
standing. 

It is the very heart of your fraternity 
problem. 

The right fraternity for you alone is the 
best fraternity. No fraternity can be the 
best unless it is the right fraternity. 

So, paradoxically, every fraternity can be 
the best and at the same time no fraternity 
can be the best. 

You will find real happiness only in the 

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right one — for you; therefore for you the 
right one is the best. 

This in a few words constitutes your whole 
fraternity problem: finding the right one 
which is the best one for you, and the only 
one for you. 

The amount of ignorance that prevails on 
this point is truly astonishing and certainly 
reveals a vast store of superficial thinking on 
the part of college men, both past and present; 
it almost compels an analogy to argument 
about the superiority of law as a profession 
to medicine or vice versa. 

DON'T judge a fraternity by the pre- 
tentiousness of its house. 

In attempting to arrive at a permanently 
satisfactory solution of your individual frater- 
nity problem it will be necessary to regard it 
from many sides and angles. Fortunately, 
not equal sides and angles, for in degree of 
importance a wide discrepancy exists among 
them, a discrepancy sufficiently large to per- 
mit disregard of many of the less significant 
phases. In other words, satisfy the major 
conditions, the few really serious require- 
ments. The others, whenever occasion rises, 
can safely be overlooked. 

At the outset, before even a consideration 
of the respective merits of the different fra- 
ternities is attempted, one outstanding fact 
should constantly be borne in mind, namely, 
that at Dartmouth, men are not judged by 
the fraternity to which they belong. In- 
terfraternity relations of a most cordial nature 
exist and everything possible is done to foster 
and perpetuate this happy condition. You 
need never feel obliged to join any fraternity 
through fear of the loss of friendship formed 

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previous to your matriculation; neither need 
you fear loss of prestige in selecting the 
fraternity of your choice. 

It is more important, even, once for all 
to banish the notion entertained at one time 
or another by probably ninety-nine out of 
every hundred men who go to college, that the 
rejection of a bid from a fraternity automati- 
cally severs all ties of friendship and renders 
the rejectee, during the remaining years of his 
college career, the target of all its arrows 
and slings of malice and scorn. 

While some approximation to this condi- 
tion may have held in the early years of 
fraternity existence, today it is emphatically 
not so, the attitude taken in such cases being 
the very broadest conceivable in the nature 
of the thing, and (not stretching the point 
too far) almost the positive antithesis of the 
older one. 

DON'T pick your fraternity for the pre- 
tentiousness of the house. 

Today you can (and should) make your 
choice with perfect freedom, unfettered by 
fear of criticism or censure if you choose to 
adopt a different course from your father or 
uncle, without fear of losing favor with your 
friends already in other fraternities because 
you choose to go a different way, without fear 
of losing caste or prestige in the eyes of the 
student body as a whole, whatever your 
choice may be. 

This is very briefly the crux of the frater- 
nity situation at Dartmouth, an enviable 
one to be sure, the fitting product of an in- 
stitution which prides itself justifiably on 
its living, breathing, growing spirit of Democ- 
racy. It has been wrought mainly by in- 

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culcation of an unswerving insistence upon 
the principle of "The College First." 

For my purposes it will be sufficient to 
examine the obviously practical results of 
this principle, not stopping to analyze the 
more minute details and ramifications which 
necessarily enter into its every-day applica- 
tion. 

Primarily, it subordinates the fraternity. 
This is your guarantee, so to speak, of the 
strictest impartiality and fairness in every 
phase of undergraduate activity. It adds 
irrefutable testimony to the truth of the 
assertion previously made that at Dartmouth 
a man is not judged by the fraternity he 
belongs to. It tends to minimize "fraternity 
politics," so called. 

DON'T base your judgment of this or 
that fraternity on a chance meeting with 
one of its members some years ago who 
impressed you favorably or badly. 

Slowly but surely it is bringing about 
equality among fraternities, yea, has brought 
it about to such an extent that today, it 
can be said with little fear of contradiction, 
practically all are on equal footing and very 
few if any real inequalities are extant. Differ- 
ences exist, surely, but differences are not 
necessarily inequalities; regarding them as 
such belongs to an age when a much lower 
order of intellectuality prevailed than at the 
present time. 

Moreover, either before or after your 
entrance to college, neither seek nor accept 
too much advice in this matter, especially 
respecting the so-called superiority or in- 
feriority of one fraternity to another. From 
whatever source, any opinion you receive is 

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almost certain to be biased in greater or 
lesser degree, however studied the informant's 
attempt to render impartial judgment. 
Unwittingly, a good deal of harm has been 
caused in this way. 

Think for yourself! Use your own judg- 
ment! Stand unswervingly by your choice! 

In making your decision you are going to 
have an opportunity to take the initial step 
toward the attainment of one of the most 
fundamental aims, one of the biggest teach- 
ings, of a college education, i. e., to teach 
men to think for themselves, to have their own 
convictions. Make the most of it! Start 
right here! 

DON'T elect to go to this or that fra- 
ternity because the mayor or some other 
prominent man of your town is a mem- 
ber; it might not be your type at all. 

If I were asked for the one piece of advice 
I consider most essential to bringing about the 
fullest equality among fraternities, most essen- 
tial to bringing about the greatest degree of 
happiness in fraternity life, and the most im- 
portant single bit of advice in these pages, I 
should unhesitatingly reply : "Rid your mind 
absolutely and completely and permanently of 
all thoughts about how this or that fraternity 
is 'rated/ whether on the campus of this 
college, or by the world at large, as a nation- 
al unit." 

If you speculate at all as to its existence 
or allow any belief in it to affect your de- 
cision, you display a very regrettable lack of 
confidence in your own judgment. You ad- 
mit inability to think for yourself. You 
confess want of courage in your convictions. 

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You indirectly let someone else do your 
choosing for you. 

UNITY OF TYPE 

Unquestionably the paramount considera- 
tion in the selection of a fraternity should be 
that of your aptitude, your inherent fitness 
to conform harmoniously to the general type 
of the men in it. It is impossible to exag- 
gerate the importance of this point; it is the 
one condition which can of itself, acting alone 
and independently, virtually create or destroy 
happiness. Bear it in mind constantly, from 
the beginning, and when you are about to 
make your final decision give it precedence 
over all other considerations. 

DON'T have your mind made up when 
you arrive at Dartmouth to go only to 
this or that fraternity. You might not 
like it — you might not get a bid from it. 
This premature decision is bound to be 
reflected in your attitude toward other 
fraternities, one of which you might later 
desire to join. 

Because no hard and fast line exists, it is 
impossible to commit each and every frater- 
nity to any well-defined category and definite- 
ly classify it as being 01 such-and-such a type; 
but in very nearly every case there will be 
found at least a few outstanding differences 
among the fraternities. 

Begin now to study the characteristics 
of the fraternity men you meet, their charac- 
teristics, remember, not their mode of dress 
or the size and shape of the pin they wear. 
Don't make snap judgments, and don't base 

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your opinion of a large group of men on the 
impression formed from a first meeting with 
one or two of- their number. 

These men may be anything but represen- 
tative of the entire group, considerably above 
or below the general average; defer judgment 
until you have had opportunity to meet the 
majority of the members. In many cases, of 
course, it will be found impossible to do this 
for a hundred-and-one reasons, but by in- 
quiry you can at least familiarize yourself 
with the faces of practically all the men in any 
fraternity. And the sooner you learn to spot 
men from their fundamental characteristics, 
the sooner will you have overcome the biggest 
obstacle in the path of a permanently happy 
choice. 

DON'T elect this or that fraternity 
because George Washington or Napoleon 
was a member — it doesn't mean any- 
thing. Live in the present. 

Even during rushing season, in the time 
allotted you in any given house you will 
have opportunity for hardly more than a 
word with most of the men. If you have 
previously sized them up, even to a minor 
degree, your chances of success in your choice 
will be infinitely greater — you won't be com- 
pelled to make a snap judgment. 

Instead of recording new impressions, you 
will be confirming or abrogating old ones. 

You won't be compelled to accept numerous 
unsupported statements of a chinning com- 
mittee, regarding the quality or character of 
the members. 

You will be proof against the most eloquent 
chinning barrage, against the psychological 
elements of size, reputation, numbers, etc. 

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Too much cannot be said against the 
practice of forming opinions of various fra- 
ternities before coming to college. Its harmful 
effects are indeed far-reaching; it presents a 
striking analogy to that of urging men into 
professions they are inherently ill-fitted for, 
and there is the even greater chance for sub- 
sequent unhappiness by reason of the stigma 
inevitably accompanying resignation from a 
fraternity. 

Willard P. Blake ascribed no less than fifty 
percent of the dissatisfaction and discontent 
of fraternity men with their own fraternities 
to it, and well said that the wise parent was 
he who counseled his son not at all in this 
matter. 

DON'T be repelled from this or that 
fraternity by the discovery that it num- 
bers among its roster one whom you 
have labeled "wet." There are "wet" 
ones in every fraternity — they keep fra- 
ternities alive. 

Inasmuch as whatever happiness may 
attend your choice of fraternity will depend 
almost entirely upon yourself, and surely 
cannot but remotely concern anyone else, 
any attempted advice must needs, at best, be 
of little value. 

Do your own choosing. You know your own 
self best ! No one is fitted to tell you the type 
with whom you will find most happiness but 
yourself. 

Start right now to rid your mind of all the 
hints and suggestions and admonitions you 
have received — even the best-intentioned 
can cause a great deal of harm. It is im- 
possible, obviously, that the adviser knows 

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you as fully, as intimately as you know your- 
self; in light of this fact, advice, direct advice 
at least, however well-intentioned, falls far 
short of its objective. 

Better proof of the foregoing it is im- 
possible to find than the steadily increasing 
number each succeeding year of sons who 
are not following their fathers' footsteps 
in their choice of fraternity. In some cases, 
of course, they have no voice in the matter, 
but the percentage in this class is small enough 
to warrant being entirely disregarded. 

DON'T be afraid to elect the fraternity 
you like, disregarding once for all that 
very illusory, very mythical something 
known as "campus rating." It positively 
and emphatically does not supply happi- 
ness. 

A great many sons often are as unlike their 
fathers as it is possible for two beings to be — 
a great many others may have a large number 
of points in common with them and yet differ 
radically in one or two vital respects, very 
possibly in just those respects essential to 
happiness were he (the son) to adopt the same 
fraternity as his father. Many fraternities 
change considerably over the years; others, 
but slightly. 

Indeed, the complications possible are 
well-nigh infinite; the few more obvious ones 
presented here for your consideration should 
be ample to establish the fact that the policy 
of advising a son to follow his father's course 
can be positively unfair and unjust and is 
readily capable of creating no end of un- 
happiness and dissatisfaction. 



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HOW TO "MAKE" A FRATERNITY 

Doubtless no one single thing exists which 
of itself can be termed indispensable to 
"making" a fraternity; there exists, how- 
ever, a single condition which undeniably 
approaches the indispensable. 

That condition is that you take an active 
part in some undergraduate activity. 

What the activity happens to be will not 
matter greatly; only don't be content with 
getting into just one; by all means go out for 
more than one if possible, but not without 
first giving serious consideration to two all- 
important points: 

First, whether the time the activities de- 
mand will interfere with diligent application 
to your studies; secondly, whether there will 
be a conflict of interests between the activities 
themselves. 

DON'T allow yourself to be swayed 
either for or against any fraternity by its 
number of chapters. This is entirely a 
matter of policy within the fraternity 
itself and, large or small, clearly not 
indicative of its merit. 

You cannot learn too soon that a most 
rigid insistence on satisfactory scholastic 
standing is maintained here at Dartmouth; 
an instance of scholastic discrimination or 
concession for exceptional ability has never 
been known. Do not expect it. 

If you are blessed with ability for certain 
undergraduate activities and hope for some 
recognition through it, above all things keep 
up in your studies, or your accomplishments, 
however marked, will be worthless to you as 
well as the college. 

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In case of conflicting interests between your 
activities themselves always give up one or 
the other; arid do it quickly, before you begin 
to lose ground in the one you elect to retain. 

Invariably, among fraternities, when a man's 
name is brought up for consideration the 
first questions asked are, " What is he doing?" 
"What is he out for?" It will likely be the 
initial consideration in your case, generally 
believed the most important one of all; and 
fraternities usually attach a value of fifty 
percent (in some cases even more) to the 
answers made to these questions. 

It should be clear then that your chances 
of " making" a fraternity will very largely 
depend on your taking part in some college 
activity. 

DON'T feel obliged to join this or 
that fraternity by strong ties of friend- 
ship with one or two of its members. At 
Dartmouth previous friendship is never 
impaired by dissimilar fraternal affilia- 
tion. 

These are but natural questions, too, for, 
to those not acquainted with the man, the 
answers to them offer some definite basis 
of judgment, a far more tangible basis than 
the usual statement made by way of intro- 
duction that so-and-so is a right mighty 
fine fellow, etc., an assertion so often heard 
that it has become worthless, being invariably 
treated as such by the members. 

Such a high evaluation on them as answers 
is not surprising either. Fraternities, being 
judged in the main quite as much by the 
performances as by the character and type of 

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their members, naturally seek men who com- 
bine both. 

It should not be inferred, however, that 
a man must have both in order to "make" a 
fraternity, that being a star in this or that 
line together with exceeding high character 
is indispensable; indeed such an inference 
would be quite erroneous, yet it cannot be 
gainsaid that fraternities are constantly in 
search of, and most keenly anxious to get, 
this type of man. 

True, men who take no part in these extra- 
curriculum activities can and do "make" 
fraternities; their percentage is naturally 
smaller, however, and by joining this class 
your chances are automatically lessened to a 
rather considerable degree. 

DON'T condemn this or that fraterni- 
ty because you happen to hear someone 
say its chapter at such-and-such a 
college doesn't rate very highly. It can't 
be said too often or emphasized too much 
that your happiness will be concerned 
only with its chapter here. 

However, by far the most important point 
to be considered in this connection is the ex- 
tremely limited range of choice available to 
these men in almost every case — to repeat, 
they can and do "make" fraternities, but 
only in rare cases do they have the oppor- 
tunity to exercise any choice in the matter; 
and when they do, it is almost certain to be a 
small one. 

The custom, now almost universal among 
fraternities, of insisting that members when- 
ever possible take some part in extra-cur- 
riculum activities has proven of inestimable 

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value to the men themselves as well as the 
college and has become one of the strongest 
justifications' for their existence. 

It has undoubtedly contributed more than 
any other one thing toward successfully con- 
futing the popular argument against a col- 
lege education, namely, that it engenders 
habits of laziness. 

At the very outset such a custom tends to 
inculcate habits distinctly incompatible with 
laziness, since precisely the same principles 
hold for the attainment of success in college 
activities as in all other activities — industry, 
perseverance, economical use of time, system- 
atizing work and study, self-reliance, thorough- 
ness and many others. 

DON'T accept anybody's opinion about 
the merit of this or that fraternity — if 
possible, don't even listen to it. You 
must decide for yourself if you hope to 
make the happiest choice. 

Further even, a twofold purpose is served 
because in order to have any appreciable 
success in either, both — that is, both class 
work and outside activity — must be attended 
to with diligence, for without satisfactory 
standing in his studies a man can receive no 
recognition in outside activities. 

This custom yields still another benefit of 
vastly greater, more permanent value, one 
which carried to its normal conclusion, will do 
much to establish the right of the fraternity 
to a place among our American institutions. 

It eliminates the idle hours that breed bad 
habits. 

This is the brightest glory of our American 
fraternities, their crowning achievement, an 

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unassailable 'raison d'etre," an all-compelling, 
irrefutable argument for their recognition 
and establishment as sound American insti- 
tutions, a priceless boon to our colleges and 
universities, annihilating the very last dialec- 
tical stronghold of anti-college men. 

To the expansion of this custom I un- 
hesitatingly ascribe the almost completely 
changed complexion of college life. The 
idler has lost his place in the sun and there 
is no longer a premium on idleness. The 
distinction, once much coveted, of being the 
laziest man in the house now invariably — 
almost — goes begging for candidates. There 
is an odium attached to indolence today, the 
presence of which is clear and unmistakable; 
it is a most effective agent for maintaining 
the general level of inertia at the barest 
minimum. 

DON'T start making inquiries trying to 
discover what the "best" fraternities 
are — or how the different ones are "rat- 
ed." Spend your spare time trying to 
find your type. When you do you will 
have found the best fraternity — for you. 

RUSHING SEASON 

The element of psychology enters into 
rushing season to a degree somewhat greater 
than is consistent with the perfectly ideal 
condition for pledging men to fraternities, but 
is, however, a feature indigenous in every 
feasible plan of rushing ever brought forward 
and, consequently, will have to be dealt with 
as a necessary factor in the process. 

I cannot urge you too strongly to begin 
now making preparations to cope with it — 

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in fact, the very best method to pursue, it 
seems, is to start giving this matter of fra- 
ternity choice some serious consideration 
every day, from the very beginning, from the 
very first day of your college course. By 
doing this the probability of ultimately 
making the ideal choice, of your recognizing 
and finding the type you are best fitted to be 
with, will be immeasurably greater than that 
of the man who defers all fraternity con- 
sideration until the rushing season. 

Only in this way will you have the oppor- 
tunity to see and study fraternity men as they 
really are, unembellished and apart from the 
private sanctum of their houses — it is the 
only practical way to combat the psychologi- 
cal element and get anything like the true 
perspective. 

DON'T decide you want to join this or 
that fraternity because you hear a rumor 
that some prominent member or mem- 
bers of your class intend to join it. 
You've got to choose the right one— for 
you — or always regret it. 

Probably the most valuable bit of advice 
in the whole matter of rushing season is to 
have your number of tentative choices nar- 
rowed down to the positive minimum before 
it begins— apply yourself industriously to this 
end and the problem of deciding will become 
comparatively easy. 

In many respects rushing season is ob- 
viously unfair to the freshman and un- 
questionably often contributes greatly to 
erroneous or unwise decisions. The ideal way 
no doubt would be to have your decision fully 
made before the advent of the period, but 

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this is impossible, since you cannot in strict- 
est honesty know that you will be bid by 
that fraternity. 

Rushing season is bound to confuse and 
bewilder you to a greater or lesser extent de- 
pending on your age, experience or tempera- 
ment and success in arriving at a somewhat 
definite decision before entering it. In the 
presence of such a large number of men, the 
majority of whom you are but slightly ac- 
quainted with, it is not to be expected that 
you will proceed to a decisive, logical judg- 
ment or, being still uncertain, not be in- 
fluenced in one way or another by the con- 
sciousness of the gravity of the problem 
confronting you. 

Naturally you will be influenced in some 
manner or other; the significant point I wish 
to bring out is that the influence should be 
rational as far as possible. And in order that 
this be brought about some very serious 
previous thought in the matter is indispensa- 
ble. 

It is hardly necessary, I think, to more than 
very briefly touch on the matter of "mud 
throwing/ ' Fraternity men today as a rule 
realize that the most desirable type of men 
are invariably repelled by it. Treat any sug- 
gestion of it accordingly. It is due in the 
great majority of cases probably to overzeal- 
ousness or a momentary lapse rather than to 
conscious attempt at discredit. 

RUSHING RULES FOR SEASON OF 
1921-22 AT DARTMOUTH 

I. That a post-Carnival second semester 
pledging season is the most desirable for the 
present fraternity situation in Dartmouth. 

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II. That the operation of this plan begin 
with September first in the college year. 

1. No pledge shall be binding if given 
before 8 o'clock on the evening of the second 
Saturday after Carnival. 

2. There shall be no entertainment of 
first-year men for fraternity purposes until 
the second Wednesday following Carnival. 
The phrase "no entertainment/ ' etc., means 
that no first-year man shall be entertained in 
a fraternity house, nor shall organized calling 
at the rooms of first-year men be permitted. 
Organized calling means any calls made by 
fraternity men on first-year men with the 
following definite exceptions: 

(a) This does not prohibit the natural 
friendly social intercourse of men living in the 
same dormitory or dwelling house, nor the 
ordinary social, friendly intercourse of men on 
the street, on the campus, at games, at the 
movies, or about town. It does imply and 
prohibit all entertainment in so far as it con- 
cerns the spending of money for the benefit 
of the freshman. 

(b) All contacts and entertainments of 
this kind shall cease promptly at 8.30 p. m. 
In other words, there shall be no evening 
calling and the opportunity for meeting fresh- 
men and for freshmen to meet upperclassmen 
shall be limited to the natural time of contact, 
namely, 12 noon to 8 p. m. 

(c) Upperclassmen living in dormitories 
or private houses shall not invite first-year 
men to their rooms to meet upperclassmen 
nor shall they invite upperclassmen to their 
rooms to meet first-year men. 

(d) Fraternity houses may entertain fresh- 
men on such Sunday nights as are designated 
by the Interfraternity Council as being "open 

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house nights.' ' The Interfraternity Council 
shall designate the fraternities that are to 
hold such nights, it being generally understood 
that only five houses should entertain on any 
Sunday evening. These houses may invite 
the freshman class in toto or they may invite 
by personal invitation those men regarding 
whom they have received information from 
their alumni or other sources, and any other 
freshmen that they see fit to include. The 
limit of expense which any fraternity may 
incur in the entertainment of freshmen shall 
be established and enforced by the Inter- 
fraternity Council. 

3. Beginning the second Wednesday fol- 
lowing Carnival entertainment of first-year 
men for fraternity purposes shall be only in 
the town of Hanover. 

4. Between 7 p. m. of the second Wednes- 
day following Carnival and 11 p. m. of the 
following Friday shall constitute the "Rush- 
ing" period, subject to the following restric- 
tions : 

(a) There shall be no contact whatever 
between freshmen and upperclassmen between 
8 p. m. Tuesday and 7 p. m. Wednesday of the 
Rushing Week when the formal chinning 
opens. 

(b) At 11 o'clock Friday night all rushing 
shall cease and a period of silence shall com- 
mence, ending at 8 o'clock Saturday night, 
at which hour the first-year men shall be in 
their rooms. 

(c) Uniform formal invitations will be 
left at the individual's door at the above 
hour, at which time he will signify his accept- 
ance or rejection in writing and will promptly 
proceed to the fraternity whose invitation he 
has accepted. 

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